Red Sox CEO Larry Lucchino joined hosts Jon Meterparel and Jen Royle on Boston Herald radio’s “Sports Town” today and shared his thoughts on the team’s surprising season, the increasing engagement level of fans, and what the future might hold for Jacoby Ellsbury.

He also had an interesting take on the current wild card play-in games, noting that he was in favor of a one-game playoff a couple of years ago as a member of the committee that ultimately implemented the second wild, but now his thoughts have changed and he’d prefer that first round be best two out of three.

“Baseball didn’t have enough one-and-out games,” Lucchino said of his original thinking. “Every playoff football game is a one and out. But I recognize that baseball is a game of series. You have series all along the season, homestands, and then you have the American League Championship Series and the World Series. So now I think that maybe a wild card series is the answer, maybe two out of three.”

Lucchino needn’t look far to envision how crushing a one-game series could be to the loser.

“If we were playing the kind of year we had this year, and we got in the wild card game and lost, it would seem like it ended abruptly, prematurely,” he said. “So I love the second wild card, but think it might be better if we could design a schedule that made room for a 2 out of 3 series.”

Here are Lucchino’s thoughts on a number of other topics . . .

On the season:

“It feels wonderful, not just personally, but I can sense the buzz around the whole town,” he said. “I think a lot of people are really relishing this kind of worst-to-first turnaround. It’s very satisfying, very enjoyable. We’re looking forward to the next chapter, October baseball.”

On what he’d like to see the team accomplish over the next week:

“Home field (advantage) you’d like to have. You’d like to get your pitching rotation squared away and lined up with some guys catching the wave of being at the top of their game. You’d like to get Ellsbury back into baseball condition. In the bullpen, you want to make sure you have someone to help you get to Koji in the ninth. Those are three or four things at the top of the list.

“And I’ll give you a fifth – savoring or enjoying it, not taking it for granted, the extraordinary achievements these guys have brought for all of us. It’s great when people talk about a four- and five-year plan to get their team turned around, and I think we’ll always have this year’s surprise in some ways to savor.”

On Ellsbury’s future:

“This is the system we live under. We have a six-year free agency rule. It is what it is, as a famous football coach said all the time. You hope there’s a chance the player will recognize the appeal of playing in Boston in front of full houses every night on a team that is determined, from ownership throughout the organization. To be competitive year in and year out. There are a lot of great attractions here, and hopefully some of them get factored in as well.”